Rhyme's Challenge
Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming Culture
1st Edition
Published on 13. January 2014
176 pages
978-0-19-936426-8 (ISBN)
Description
Rhyme's Challenge offers a concise, pithy primer to hip-hop poetics while presenting a spirited defense of rhyme in contemporary American poetry. David Caplan's stylish study examines hip-hop's central but supposedly outmoded verbal technique: rhyme. At a time when print-based poets generally dismiss formal rhyme as old-fashioned and bookish, hip-hop artists deftly deploy it as a way to capture the contemporary moment. Rhyme accommodates and colorfully chronicles the most conspicuous conditions and symbols of contemporary society: its products, technologies, and personalities. Ranging from Shakespeare and Wordsworth to Eminem and Jay-Z, David Caplan's study demonstrates the continuing relevance of rhyme to poetry -- and everyday life.
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David Caplan is Charles M. Weis Chair in English and Associate Director of Creative Writing at Ohio Wesleyan University. His previous books include Questions of Possibility: Contemporary Poetry and Poetic Form and the poetry collection In the World He Created According to His Will.
Content
Introduction: Because It Rhymes
Chapter 1
Reduced to Rhyme: Contemporary Doggerel
Chapter 2
The Art of Rhymed Insult
Chapter 3
Making Love in Mirrors: Hip-Hop Seduction Verse
Chapter 4
The Inheritors of Hip Hop: Reclaiming Rhyme
Conclusion
Notes
Index
